What do you guys think are the most obscure facts in the potter books that should be remembered going into the last book? I'll throw some out there:
1.) What is a Horcrux
2.) Albus knew Voldemort had put a curse on the defense against the dark arts class such that any professor who took this post would have to leave the school after one year. Knowing this he put Severus, one of his most important instructors, into the job. This means he knew Severus would be gone that year. Interesting that his own death was in fact the thing that snapped the curse into action for Snape. Becuase of this I believe he was involved in plotting his own death. He knew too many of the contributing variables...
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From wikipedia
1 - Rowling invented the Horcrux to be a "receptacle in which a Dark wizard has hidden a part of his soul" for the purposes of attaining immortality." With part of a wizard's soul thus stored, the wizard becomes immortal so long as the Horcrux remains intact, typically hidden away in a safe location. If the wizard's body is destroyed, part of the soul remains preserved within the Horcrux. However, the destruction of the Horcrux creator's body leaves the wizard in a state of half-life, without corporeal form. The dark magic involved in the creation of a Horcrux is considered most despicable and is therefore rarely published, even in books devoted to the Dark Arts.
A Horcrux can be made from any normal object. Destruction of the Horcrux destroys the fragment of soul contained within it, ending the protection it provides, and rendering the creator mortal if there are no remaining Horcruxes. A wizard must have at least one piece of his soul intact on Earth in order to continue living. Thus, if all of the Horcruxes created by one wizard were destroyed, then there would be no way for the wizard to return after being killed, as his death would release the last piece of his soul from mortal existence.
Lord Voldemort is the only wizard explicitly mentioned as having created a Horcrux (though others are known to have done so) and is the only wizard known to have created more than one.
2 - I'm not done with 7 yet, but I'm still convinced Dumbledore masterminded his whole death. There is no way he was fooled by snape. I'm still not even convinced snape is really bad.
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